Little Dome C - Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Drilling Site (75.29917 °S, 122.44516 °E) – Season 2023/24
Situation Report #47, 12 January 2024
Updated water isotope measurments (from A. Landais)
Started packing the remaining ice core shelves. Photo F. Scoto. Credit: Scoto©PNRA/IPEV
Personnel @LDC: Saverio Panichi (ENEA, Camp Leader), Olivier Alemany (CNRS), Philippe Possenti (CNRS), Matthias Hüther (AWI), Remi Dallmayr (AWI), Gunther Lawer (AWI), Johannes Lemburg (AWI), Andrea Ceinini (ENEA), Federico Scoto (CNR), Tamara Gerber (UCPH), Iben Koldtoft (UCPH), Julien Westhoff (UCPH), James Veale (BAS), and Inès Gay (IPEV)
Personnel @Concordia: Fortunat Joos (UNIB), Michaela Mühl (UNIB)
Weather at LDC 1 pm: sunny, T = -18.1°C, Wind = 1.5 m/s
After the problems of the last two days, we resumed drilling in a slightly more stable mode. To minimize the risks, we slightly reduced the winching speed. We have had some issues with the “PIG” that we are trying to fix.
The first LDC personnel have started to leave the camp, so that we can gradually close it down.
We also started to clean and pack some stuff.
Processing is going well and another 16m have been analyzed and made ready for shipment to Europe.
What we did today at LDC:
- drilling in shift;
- processed 16 ice cores;
- started cleaning and packing;
- said goodbye to our friends leaving LDC.
End of day statistics at 19h30:
- Driller’s depth: 1663.49 m;
- we made 7 drilling runs between yesterday 19h30 and 19h30 today. The length of the cores was: 4.48, 4.40, 4.48, 4.30, 4.51, 4.5 and 4.49 (driller length), for a total of 31.26 meters.
- Logger’s depth:1659.02 m.
- Current processing depth: 1627 m; daily total: 16 m; season total: 1303 m.
Olivier Alemany, Matthias Hüther, Julien Westhoff and Saverio Panichi. LDC, 12.01.2024